Washington: From the monkey puzzle tree of Peru to the Tasmanian blue gum of Australia, from the baobabs of Madagascar to the giant sequoias of California, the world is blessed with an abundance of tree species. How many? A new study has the answer. Researchers have unveiled the world’s largest forest database, comprising more than 44 million individual trees at […]

EMMETT Till's mom Mamie was forced to identify her son using a ring he wore after the 14-year-old's body was mutilated beyond recognition when he was lynched in 1955. Mamie Till Mobley is praised as a civil rights leader for her battle for justice for Emmett, whose murderers admitted in a magazine interview that they were responsible a year after […]

THIS is the heartbreaking moment Cleo Smith's best friend pleaded for the "abducted toddler" to come home because "she needs to stay with her family". Lenaya "Naya" Forbes posed beside a drawing she made for her pal who vanished from her family's remote campsite in Western Australia last Saturday morning. Cleo's mum Ellie says her daughter woke up at 1.30am on […]

THE past two years have undoubtedly been tough for the nation, with so many of us experiencing bereavement. But we can be cheered that, thanks to our world-beating vaccine programme, recent statistics show the virus is finally in retreat. Data released by the UK Health Security Agency yesterday shows cases dropped by close to ten per cent in a week […]

THE Astroworld disaster is one of the worst crowd atrocities in US history and had a "haunting similarity" to a 2016 concert where nearly 50 people were injured after a railing collapsed, the lawyer who litigated that case has told The Sun. Both concerts were run by promoter Live Nations and were "poorly planned," attorney Andrew Duffy told The Sun […]

BUNGLING developers were ridiculed after they built a row of houses behind an existing road sign –  completely blocking the gate to one property. Locals took to social media in bewilderment at the bodge job at the newly-constructed townhouses labelling those responsible as 'brain dead'. The entrance to one of the homes in Shirehampton, Bristol, has been built behind the […]

TEXAS senator Ted Cruz has been the subject of many strange questions – from people querying if he is the Zodiac Killer to those googling why he keeps fighting with Seth Rogan on Twitter. But recurring topics around the outspoken Texas senator include his nationality and where he lives. Here's all you need to know. Where does Ted Cruz live? […]

A HEARTBROKEN mum is convinced she spotted the spirit of her dead daughter wearing a white dress in her teenage son's Snapchat selfie. Patricia Winchester, 44, claimed to see an eerie figure protectively standing over 13-year-old son Hunter Bounds' shoulder in a photo he sent to a friend on the popular app. The revelation comes soon after the emergence of pictures said to show […]